Erotic Home

Francis D. Smith
After swimming

we give ourselves up bodily
to the cold crush of waves
relieving, reliving the plunge
                                        into love

when we stripped each other
for the close night
on the empty beach below the house
where it began in gab and gin and tonics

we lunge out pounded, socked shivering
the green cold
Atlantic is no lake for lovers

we need the blankets, grab them
beat it up the flight of wooden steps
into the house, rush the fire

I dry you slowly as you lie taking it
your body smells of love, the sea
the afternoon sun, glows from the toweling

you are miles away I am still
as a lighthouse, you lift your hips
the rich cunt cargo, sable and spices
is coming to me in the wide white ships.
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Francis D. Smith lives in Massachusetts.  His prose and poetry have appeared in Atomicpetals, Eclectica, The Melic Review, Mentress Moon, and elsewhere.  email:  Francis Smith